Propaganda Surrounding Common Abortion Myths — Debunked
Where is the current administration’s all-knowing disinformation board when we need them? Oh well, I guess it is up to us to do the grunt work here.
This post about a nurse who allegedly spent 9 hours at an undisclosed hospital with a woman who had a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy rupture has been flooding social media:
The post was first distributed from a twitter page (@TheBlondeRN) that is conveniently private and supposedly received this text from a friend, who received it from an anonymous follower.
Let’s for a moment give the benefit of the EXTREME doubt, and pretend that this text from an anonymous nurse has any credibility whatsoever.
The doctor mentioned would and should immediately lose his license for waiting 9 hours to treat a life-threatening condition. Ectopic pregnancies are NOT the same thing as an abortion, and there are no laws, in any states, preventing doctors from performing these life-saving surgeries. Unfortunately, there is no way to save an ectopic pregnancy, (a fertilized egg that implants anywhere other than a woman’s uterus) this condition leads to fetal death 100% of the time.
The Cleveland Clinic explains that there are three ways to treat an ectopic pregnancy: medication when caught early, laparoscopically, or by surgical intervention. There is a significant medical and legal difference between a condition in which the fetus will not under any circumstances survive, and the intensional killing a fetus. After years upon years of medical training, it does not take a leap of faith to assume that this doctor was well aware of the difference between an abortion and a medically necessary procedure.
Now, let’s move on to the more logical explanation: this post contains abortion activist propaganda, it is likely not true, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
As of now, there has not been any media coverage of this event, which we can chalk up to the fact that it simply never happened. There has been no confirmation from other staff members, doctors or the lawyer, and the hospital has not made any press release attesting to the truth of this anecdote. In fact, the post does not even tell readers what state this even happened in.
I truly believed that we learned this valuable lesson after reading this text that went around when Covid was first circulating around the United States:
“Please be advised. Within 48 to 72 hours the President will evoke what is called the Stafford Act. Stock up on whatever you guys need to make sure you have a two week supply of everything. Please forward to your network.”
NBC News even said, “misleading information and false claims have moved to what experts are calling a literal ‘game of telephone’ in text-messaging apps.”
An even more recent example is the famed “Ghost of Kyiv” gossip which forced the Ukrainian military to step in and put a stop to the rumors. Business Insider debunked the “Ghost of Kyiv” fallacy with one swift blow back to reality.
The moral of the story is: just because people are reposting something by the thousands, does not make it true.
